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butterfingered

adj
/ˈbʌtəˌfɪŋɡəd/UK/ˈbʌtɚˌfɪŋɡɚd/US

Etymology

From butter + fingered (“having fingers (of the specified kind)”), an allusion to people tending to drop things because their hands are so slippery that they seem to be covered in butter.

  1. derived from *penkʷrós✻
  2. derived from *fingraz✻
  3. derived from *fingr✻
  4. derived from finger
  5. inherited from fynger
  6. suffixed as fingered — “finger + ed”
  7. compounded as butterfingered — “butter + fingered”

Definitions

  1. Prone to dropping things

    Prone to dropping things; clumsy.

    • [I]t is always a matter of annoyance to the whole field when one of the party fails in a fair catch, or performs it in a bungling or "butter[-]fingered" style.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA